Bengals are still roughly 5,000 tickets away from a sellout; Bengals file lawsuit to bring worker comp claims to Ohio

is a moron? I had the feeling that Paul really cared about the fans and about satisfying them. Goodell is so oblivious to everything. Does anyone think he will be around much longer?

Why don’t people understand this? Watching the NFL is a luxury, not a right. NFL owners want people in the seats. Not only because they earn revenue from the sale of tickets, but they also earn a few bucks on concessions and on jersey sales etc. The NFL has already rec’d the TV money and has shared it accordingly with the owners. Why then would the NFL owners give you something for free that they are not obligated to by their contract with the networks? Would you? Would you if the seats weren’t full and people weren’t buying beers at a breakneck pace? Would you if memorobilia sales were down? I would find a new revenue model on the next go around with the networks and that would be….drum roll please….pay per view. The NFL network is a form of it, NFL ticket is a form of pay per view and now that guaranteed sellouts are a thing of the past (not just in Cincy, but all across the country) pay per view is coming.

It turns out those of you who rid yourselves of those pesky psls for reasons other than your financial situation shouldn’t have acted so hastily. You are going to end up paying one way or another…

When you have a good product and people get value from the entertainment, I am sure there are supporters and loyal fans in any community. Owners have got to take a look in the mirrors and ask themselves if they honestly think their teams are competitive enough to have a chance for the playoffs. Year in and year out, when you know your team won’t make it, you do get tired of the losing and games when you get blown away. Sell outs are usually associated with good teams.

Blackouts are much like piracy in the flawed logic employed by the proponents. You see, while John Doe may sit at home and watch a game, blacking it out doesn’t stimulate John Doe to purchase a ticket. John Doe will not be a viewer or a seat stuffer. John Doe also may not be a merchandise purchaser in the future. Television revenues will be down (obviously) and if the Bengals have a good game, no one saw it to be stimulated to become a seat stuffer on the next blackout, essentially perpetuating the downward slide.

Software giants also use the same theory that for every pirated copy of, Windows for example, that is a sale not made to their company and chalk that up as a financial loss. In reality, that person would probably not be a customer in any fashion had they had to cough up that kind of money. Yet, Microsoft would be making sales of its peripherals to the user of the pirated copy of Windows.

I really don’t hold either opinion as right or wrong, but the fact that there are solid arguments on both sides of the issue should make the intelligent person take pause in consideration.